James McKinnon (historian)

Rev Prof James McKinnon DD FRSE LLD DLit (died 1945) was a writer on history and church history. He was Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Edinburgh1908 to 1930.

Life

He was born in Turriff in northern Aberdeenshire. He was educated locally but then travelled to South Africa to study divinity at Stellenbosch University. He returned to Scotland to complete his degree at the University of Edinburgh graduating with an MA. He undertook further postgraduate studies in Germany, at Bonn University and Heidelberg University.

In 1910 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir William Turner, George Chrystal, Cargill Gilston Knott and Sir Frank Watson Dyson.[1]

He died at Thornlea House in Forfar on 12 July 1945, aged 85.

Publications
  • Culture in Early Scotland (1892)
  • The Union of England and Scotland (1896)
  • The History of Edward III (1900)
  • The Growth and Decline of the French Monarchy (1902)
  • A History of Modern Liberty (1906)
  • The Social and Industrial History of Scotland (1920)
  • Constitutional History of Scotland to the Reformation (1924)
  • Luther and the Reformation (1925)

Family

In 1886 he married Pauline Klein. They had one son, James A. R. MacKinnon, who served as Sheriff Substitute for Forfarshire.[2]

References
  1. Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783 – 2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
  2. Times (newspaper) obituary 21 July 1945.


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